Thursday, September 1, 2016

Component Top 5's and Bottom 5's for Pitchers

Continuing from my last post (and you should read it first, if you haven't yet, for an introduction to this one), here are the top 5 and bottom 5 pitchers in each binary component, for the years 2006 to 2015:

Now we're into the back four components. Whatever skills these components reveal that can't be attributed to the pitcher's defense or home ballpark, I can't account for them in my Fanduel spreadsheet (unless I were to build my own projections, which I won't).

...As shown by the pitchers with the lowest $SB rates - Cueto and Buehrle, two pitchers known for having exceptional pickoff moves. And Chris Young is a man of extremes - stands 6'10", has the absolute lowest rate of hits on balls in play, but one of the highest rates of extra-base hits on the hits he does allow, and effectively turns the average baserunner into Jimmy Rollins.